EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been modified to correct the spelling of the deceased children's names.

ROCKFORD — Lawyers for Kayla Lund continued to fight charges that she starved her infant son to death in September 2011, but couldn’t stop Chief Judge Joseph McGraw from hearing testimony that revealed another of her infant children had died two years earlier.

Prosecutors say Lund’s 7-week-old son Jaxon Betts died emaciated and starved Sept. 22, 2011, in South Beloit. Dr. Christopher Gianvecchio, a Beloit pediatrician, testified today that although Lund listed him as the baby’s doctor, he had never examined Jaxon. Lund never brought him in for a scheduled well-baby check appointment.

Gianvecchio said he didn’t know if his office called to remind or cajole Lund, 25, into bringing Jaxonto the appointment. But he said he remembers another of Lund’s babies: Lukas Nalan who died June 9, 2009.

“What sticks out in my memory is that Lukas missed a well-child check and died the next day,” Gianvecchio said.

Assistant Public Defenders Nick Zimmerman and Edward Light had objected to allowing any evidence or testimony regarding Lukas, his death and medical care of him and Lund’s other two children. They argued it was irrelevant to the case concerning Jaxon’s death.

Assistant Winnebago County State’s Attorney Marilyn Hite Ross, criminal bureau chief, said the evidence was not offered to show “propensity,” which she said would be improper. Rather, it was to show that Lund had the capacity to get her children to a doctor and knew when it was necessary to do so.

McGraw ruled he would allow a limited amount of the testimony regarding Lund’s other children, but suggested it was of little value when determining Lund’s guilt or innocence in the death of Jaxon.

In court documents, Winnebago County prosecutors say Lukas died after Lund failed to fill an albuterol prescription for Lukas who was diagnosed with asthma. An investigator from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services ruled evidence in the case indicated the death was related to “medical neglect.”

Neglect was also indicated in Jaxon’s death.

The boy’s father, Craig Betts, testified that Lund refused to allow him to bring Jaxon home with him for visits. Also the father of another one of Lund’s children, Betts was permitted to care for the other child once a week. However Lund — ostensibly because she objected to the boy being around Betts’ girlfriend, who called the baby a name in a Facebook post — wouldn’t allow Jaxon to go home with Betts.

Betts only held Jaxon for a few minutes when he would pick up his other son. At those times Jaxon was fully clothed and wrapped in a blanket. Betts testified that he could not tell Jaxon had lost weight since his birth and had noticed anything unusual about him.

Page 2 of 2 - Born at more than 7 pounds, 4 ounces, Jaxon weighed about 4 pounds when he died, prosecutors said.

Lund’s lawyers said that in the weeks before Jaxon died, Lund had reduced the amount of formula Jaxon was fed while increasing the number of feedings because he had a problem with throwing up his formula.

Prosecutors point out she never sought medical attention for the baby.